Political blog. Been hijacked to president ial because some governor is running for president right now. In my extracurricular life i am the president of the National Press clubs journalism institute, of which the crown jewel is the and libraries are important, because libraries are with the texas book festival is all about. The book festival raises money for Public Libraries and texas and for literacy programs, all of the books to buy benefit the libraries of the state of texas. I highly recommend that you buy gunfight. Our author will sign books after our program in the book signing tent a congress avenue. Ive been asked by the folks at cspan to ask you to turn off or silence your cellphones. We have had some problems earlier today. If you want to take out your concealed weapons now would be a good time as well, concealed weapons, if you take them out they are not concealed anymore. What we are here today to talk about, gunfight the battle over the right to bear arms in america. It i
Nobel peace prize laureates reminiscing about the fall of the berlin wall 30 years on. The most important thing was that the germans didnt leave the streets in cities across germany they said we are one nation we have to reunite. You. With friendship between scorpions and michelle you go by chance goes back to the final days of the soviet union when the countrys last leader invited the band to the kremlin now 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall the rockers are thanking him again. For people. Without him german reunification and the fall of the berlin wall wouldnt have happened so peacefully it wouldnt have been the peaceful revolution that it was where no one fired a shot the fact that no one died and that the tanks didnt roll in that november the night to gorbachev is on. Go watch yourself about. Of course the main reason for the bands moscow visit was this sold out stadium concert. More than 10000 scorpions fans turned out to see the band sing their song about the last days of
People are still. Good afternoon. Please find a comfortable seat, and before we begin i need to tell you that there will be a book signing afterwards and, it is outside on table h, and all the authors will be there with their books. And, let me introduce the speakers for today. The first speaker will be darryl pinckney, all the way on my left. A longtime contributor to the new york review, distinguished author of high cotton and black deutschland among other books. And then i dont know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. So, yasmine el rashidi, egyptian author, who wrote, the battle for egypt, a chronicle of last summer, a novel, and written important pieces for the new york review. Last my on my right, masha gessen, who has written several books about russia, including the man without a face, the future is history, how totality ianism reclaimed russia, the most recent i think. Well be discussing immigration. None of us is an expert on the subject wh
You see future games being held . The smartass answer would be somewhere between we throw darts and it depends who was harassing me the most. The latter is closest to the truth. Actually, we look for to be opportunistic. We started in buffalo with the notion that maybe it would work. Once it did, we started looking for what would be the next place we could go to that can build upon it, and continue the growth of the winter classic and all Outdoor Games as an institution. As we got more and more comfortable building it as an event, as it got a bigger and bigger following, we decided we could try things that some people thought would be crazy. Last year, we did an outdoor game in los angeles and it was great. For us to come to the nations capital, there is a fan base here that ted has built through his organization and through his use of social media and his commitment to the community that made us comfortable that selling out the venue would be no problem. Secondly, we would have an imp
I do my best to explain, but i realized that i didnt really know myself so i thought when i retired, when i had time, i would try to do research and find out why do we have the Second Amendment and how has it been understood during all the years its been enforced, and the book was the result. Host i read the book with interest covering the history, the legal battles, covering whats going on current day, and lets go through a lot of that, and starting with the history. What surprised you the most with American History and saw the role give ups played or didnt play . Guest i grew up in massachusetts in the 50s, and, of course, we always made a big thing of thanksgiving and so on, and the kind of the way the story ran in schools when we learned about it was as the pilgrims came, friendly with the indians, celebrated the first thanksgiving, and everything was hunky dory. Read the history of the colonies in massachusetts, and you find that relations between native americans and new english